Ritzer, George
Globalization: The Essentials
Essentials of Globalization is a highly useful compact edition of the author's full-scale textbook, Globalization: A Basic Text. The Essentials is written in a style accessible to undergraduates, and draws on both academic and popular sources in its explanations.
- A highly useful compact version of Globalization: A Basic Text , which still contains the major areas whilst being especially affordable for the student market
- Develops a unique perspective on globalization early in the book and uses it throughout to orient and organize discussion of a wide range of topics and parts of the world
- Integrated use of a wide array of materials, including empirical research, theories, newspaper and magazine articles, monographs, popular books
- Designed to work as a basic text in a course on globalization, or as a supplementary text in that or other courses which wish to include globalization as one of several topics
Keywords: globalisation, McDonaldization, world culture, social change, glocalization, Americanization, neo-liberalism
- Author(s)
- Ritzer, George
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 352 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781444393576
- Printed ISBN
- 9780470655603